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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: How to get nice with GNAT?
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On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 13:33:01 -0500, Dennis Lee Bieber
<wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> declaimed the following:


>
>Does leave OUT only parameters hanging, unless one just takes the view that
>IN OUT and OUT both rely upon copying from procedure local memory to return
>parameter memory at the same point (and an IN OUT copies from the parameter
>memory to local memory upon entry).
>

	ADDENDUM: Original Ada OUT parameters were write-only from the
viewpoint of the procedure too... Ada 95 allowed them to be used as
read-write within the procedure.
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